When I complained about how ill-defined "simple" was, a lot of people pointed me to Hickey's "simple made easy". Here's a challenge about that: Provide code that is simple but not easy. Then provide code in the same language, doing the same thing, that is easy but not simple.
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I think that separating those concepts, or even defining and identifying each concept on its own, is a lot harder than people think.
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I agree, but I think that most people confidently argue the two without having a clear categorization beforehand. Thinking of how people argue complectedness is bad except that it's insanely simple and useful in the real world
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Made complicated for no good reason?
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Most of the time we make things complicated for a very good reason
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Replying to @hillelogram @larsr_h
Then they’re not “complected” by my understanding of the term

Apr 14, 2019 · 5:27 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @hillelogram @larsr_h
My understanding of the word is “woven together”. Which is, I think, like “coupled” only stronger.
Replying to @stilkov @hillelogram @larsr_h
Pretty common thing I’ve seen: thing is complicated for a very good reason that isn’t apparent to someone, which they assume is complicated for no good reason. Maybe there’s a comment but maybe the original complicator didn’t consider it complicated.